The fNIRS glossary project: a consensus-based resource for functional near-infrared spectroscopy terminology
The fNIRS glossary provides a community-sourced resource that facilitates education and effective scientific communication within the fNIRS community and related fields. By lowering barriers to learning and engaging with fNIRS, the glossary is poised to benefit a broad spectrum of researchers, including those with limited access to educational resources.
Authors
- Ségolène M. R. Guérin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-9408)
- David M. A. Mehler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6587-2617)
- Samuel Montero‐Hernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4093-8066)
- Alessandro Torricelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6878-8936)
- Thomas Dresler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2084-1950)
- Oliver Seidel-Marzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6622-1231)
- Grégoire Vergotte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-6343)
- Haijing Niu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-1966)
- Jessica Gemignani
- Divya Jain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5023-5818)
- Samuel H. Forbes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1022-4676)
- David R. Busch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-944X)
- Małgorzata Chojak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7558-7630)
- Chia-Chuan Yu
- Antonia F. de C. Hamilton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8000-0219)
- Christina Artemenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-7960)
- Kimberly Lewis Meidenbauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9135-6130)
- Valentina Quaresima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-0304)
- Yoko Hoshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5385-9714)
- Michael Lührs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5888-0843)
- Haiyan Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6168-6224)
- Aykut Eken
- Hamid Dehghani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4117-0412)
- Simone Cutini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-3219)
- Murat Can Mutlu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2933-6985)
- Arjun G. Yodh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-2706)
- Chiara Bulgarelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6153-137X)
- S. M. Hadi Hosseini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5186-7008)
- Turgut Durduran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5838-1027)
- Rob J. MacLennan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8866)
- Hellmuth Obrig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3121-7312)
- Rickson C. Mesquita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1945-6713)
- Aahana Bajracharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7361-6020)
- Katharina Stute (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5302-8512)
- Louisa K. Gossé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-3037)
- Ann‐Christine Ehlis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8142-9743)
- Talukdar Raian Ferdous (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-5786)
- Guy A. Perkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0437-9324)
- Lauren L. Emberson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-6580)
- Paola Pinti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-3481)
- Meryem A. Yücel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-2847)
- Felix Scholkmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1748-4852)
- Ali Rahimpour Jounghani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0681-051X)
- Felipe Orihuela‐Espina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-7283)
- Laura Diprossimo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-3984)
- Ishara Paranawithana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6509-9687)
- Anna Exner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0741-9045)
- Heidrun Wabnitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3846-8659)
- Judit Gervain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2125-6369)
- Vanessa Reindl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-5346)
- Ilias Tachtsidis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-0313)
- Agnes Kroczek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-5256)
- Qianqian Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0805-935X)
- David Moreau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3193-571X)
- M. Atif Yaqub (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-7891)
- Jason M. DeFreitas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5108-8079)
- Anastasia N. Kerr-German (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-1096)
- Abigail Fiske (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2765-4752)
- Beatrix Barth
- Sara Sanchez–Alonso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9531-1458)
- Sergio Fantini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5116-525X)
- Edgar Guevara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2313-2810)
- Stefan A. Carp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4617-3233)
- Jason K. Longhurst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-6949)
- Franziska Klein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9752-5203)
- Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-3998)
- Renato Orti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-7981)
- Musa Talati
- Christian Gerloff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2718-2089)
- MM Ferrari
- Mohinish Shukla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2806-0174)
- Nicholas A. Ross
- Christian Bartkowski
- Syed A. Usama
- Hanieh Zainodini
- Lénac Borot
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (DE)
- Northeastern University (US)
- TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TR)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Padua (IT)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Mercer University (US)
- Nanjing Normal University (CN)
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (PL)
- Institute of Photonic Sciences (ES)
- Durham University (GB)
- Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (MX)
- University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Oldenburger Institut für Informatik (DE)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Chemnitz University of Technology (DE)
- University of L'Aquila (IT)
- Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (JP)
- Yale University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Mallinckrodt (United States) (US)
- Klinikum Oldenburg (DE)
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (DE)
- Diamed Medizintechnik (Germany) (DE)
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning
- University of Houston (US)
- University College London (GB)
- Saint Louis University (US)
- Monash University (AU)
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Syracuse University (US)
- Washington State University (US)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
- Florida College (US)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (DE)
- Stanford University (US)
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurophotonics
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/1.nph.12.2.027801
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.77
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Wellcome Trust
- Centres de Recerca de Catalunya
- Australian Government
- Leverhulme Trust
- European Commission
- Nanyang Technological University
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Ministero della Salute
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- RWTH Aachen University
- National Institutes of Health
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Medical Research Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- Innovate UK
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions